Telephone-mouthpiece.



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EDWARD H. LONG, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

TELEPHONE-MOUTHPIECE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patent-ed Dec. 21, 190.9.

Application filed December 10, 1908. Serial No. 466,863.

T0 all whom it may comer/i:

Beit known that I, EDWARD H LONG, a

gcitizen'of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los' Angeles and State of California, have invented new and useful; Improvements in Telephone-Mouthpieces, of which the following is a specification. I

,The object of my invention is to provide a removable mouth-piece, the projecting screw threaded'sh'ank of .which is not easily broken, doing away with the inconvenience and loss caused thereby. I accomplish these objects. by means of thejdevice described herein and: shown in the accompanying.

drawings, in which Figure 1-1s a sideelevation partly broken away and partly in section of. my improved mouth-piece. spective View of my improved metallic attachment therefor.

These mouth-pieces are usually made of insulating material and are preferably; cast into the'shapein which they are used and are. provided with a screw threaded exten-. sion or shank forscrew threaded engagement with the transmitter" shown in dotted lines' in Fig. 1.

edshank is often. broken ofi' when any unusual strain; is placed thereon. To obviate this objection I provide a metallic screw threaded attachment-1- as shown in Fig, 2. This is preferably stamped out of sheet brass or other suitable metal and is provided with projecting lugs 2 adapted to be embedded in the material out of which the mouth-piece 3 is molded and to'hold -the same firmly in place as shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 21s a per-' This material is more or less brittle and as a result the screw thread- It will be apparent from the above described construction that by forming the threaded shank 4 of the mouth-piece 0fm eta-l, that all danger of breakage or other injury thereto when attaching it tothe telephone transmitter is obviated.

Having described my invention what I- claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1s:.

1. A mouth-piece for a telephone transmitter, comprising a cylindrical member formed of an electrical insulating material and having one of 1ts ends flared outwardly,

and a metallic cylindrical screw-threaded transmitter attachment means secured to the end opposite. the flared end of the cylindrical member, said means having attaching prongs formed on the .end that engages the cylindrical member, whereby to'maintain the two'members in rigid engagement with each other.

2. A inouthfpiece for telephone transmitters, comprising an exteriorly screw- 

